# Balboa Salon: Agent-Direct Score C (67.5%) Site: https://www.balboasalonsd.com/ Report: https://directindex.org/r/balboasalonsd.com Scanned: 2026-10-16 (Provisional, with the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.) Balboa Salon is partly visible to agents. An AI assistant can open Balboa Salon's website. It can read what Balboa Salon offers. It finds a way to book or order directly on the site. ## Direct links - Book directly: https://www.balboasalonsd.com/make-an-appointment (on the business's own site) - Menu: https://www.balboasalonsd.com/services/pricing-table - Phone: +1-858-278-0799 - Address: Balboa Avenue 5929 92111 San Diego ## Nearby, also direct Places near Balboa Salon that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between. - Blush Hour (120 m): https://directindex.org/r/blushhournailsspasandiego.com - Mesa Spa (350 m): https://directindex.org/r/mesaspamassage.com - European Wax Center (490 m): https://directindex.org/r/waxcenter.com - Dynamic Myofascial Release (550 m): https://directindex.org/r/dynamic-mfr.com - Spa Aphrodite (610 m): https://directindex.org/r/spaaphrodite.com ## What to fix first - **No structured data for the business.** (+15 points) Add schema.org JSON-LD for the business (HairSalon, BeautySalon or the closest type, with name, address, telephone and openingHoursSpecification). Every assistant reads this block first, and the fix kit below has it filled in. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant - **No llms.txt.** (no points, but worth doing) Optional for now and cheap to add. It's a short text file that describes the business for language models. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/llms-txt-for-a-business ## What the site tells visitors (Measured, not scored) - **The footer says © 2014.** Visitors and assistants may read that year as the last time anyone looked after the site. In San Diego, 66% of comparable sites that show a year say 2025 or later. ## Fix kit: What to paste Structured data (JSON-LD). Paste it as one block in the page's head, or in the builder's custom code box. Change anything that's wrong. ```html ``` llms.txt. Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. ``` # Balboa Salon > hair salon in Balboa Avenue 5929 92111 San Diego, San Diego hairdressers and beauty salons. Phone +1-858-278-0799. ## Book or order directly - Book: https://www.balboasalonsd.com/make-an-appointment (on the business's own site) - Menu: https://www.balboasalonsd.com/services/pricing-table ## About - Website: https://www.balboasalonsd.com/ - This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models. ``` ## Already right - **robots.txt lets AI crawlers in.** No rule blocks the main AI user agents. - **AI crawlers get the page.** GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all got a normal response. - **Price list of services is an HTML page.** Agents can read the items and prices. - **Appointments on your own site.** Agents can book an appointment without going through a marketplace. ## Where it stands 359 of 1535 in San Diego hairdressers and beauty salons. Top 23% of the sites scanned in this index. | What the top 10% of the index does | Top 10% | This site | |---|---|---| | Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 97% | yes | | Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 26% | yes | | Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 97% | yes | | Structured data with address, phone and hours | 12% | no | | Have an llms.txt | 51% | no | Nearest places in the index: Blush Hour (C, 122 m, https://directindex.org/r/blushhournailsspasandiego.com); Mesa Spa (C, 346 m, https://directindex.org/r/mesaspamassage.com); Fantastic Sams (D, 480 m, https://directindex.org/r/fantasticsams.com); European Wax Center (B, 492 m, https://directindex.org/r/waxcenter.com); Healthy Touch Massage and Bodywork (C, 527 m, https://directindex.org/r/healthytouchsd.com); Dynamic Myofascial Release (B, 548 m, https://directindex.org/r/dynamic-mfr.com); Holding Space Myofascial Release (F, 549 m, https://directindex.org/r/holdingspacemfr.com); Spa Aphrodite (B, 610 m, https://directindex.org/r/spaaphrodite.com); Spacienda (F, 614 m, https://directindex.org/r/massagetherapy.com); Nails By Ann and Lounge (A, 635 m, https://directindex.org/r/nailsbyannandlounge.com). ## What assistants answer The assistants haven't been asked about this business yet. They're asked about the top-ranked businesses in each city index, and about any business as soon as it's claimed. Claim this page to be included. The assistants were asked 7 everyday questions about San Diego hairdressers and beauty salons and named 38 places. Balboa Salon wasn't one of them. See who was named: https://directindex.org/city/san-diego-salons/recommended Compared with its peers: Sites built with WordPress 55% (24% A or B, 224455 sites); This site 67.5%. See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/balboasalonsd.com/agent-view ## Businesses like Balboa Salon in San Diego hairdressers and beauty salons | Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site | |---|---|---|---|---| | Businesses of the same kind in San Diego hairdressers and beauty salons | 1535 | 49% | 21% | 67.5% | | Sites built with WordPress in San Diego hairdressers and beauty salons | 386 | 58% | 22% | 67.5% | The best of the sites built with WordPress in San Diego hairdressers and beauty salons: Lisa Beauty Salon (A 95.4%, https://directindex.org/r/haircenter.com); San Diego Skin MedSpa & Laser (A 95.4%, https://directindex.org/r/sandiegoskin.com); The Knot Stop (A 87.7%, https://directindex.org/r/theknotstop.com); Beauty IQ Pro Spa (A 86.2%, https://directindex.org/r/beautyiqprospa.com); Bella Donna’s (A 86.2%, https://directindex.org/r/belladonnas.com). With the fix above (No structured data for the business), the score would be about 86.3%. That would be 18th of 1,535 in San Diego hairdressers and beauty salons, up from 359th. ## The direct record What agents get for Balboa Salon, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/balboasalonsd.com - Book: https://www.balboasalonsd.com/make-an-appointment (own site; could not verify: partial (2026-10-21)) - Order: none on record - Menu: https://www.balboasalonsd.com/services/pricing-table (html_page; from the scan) - Hours: none on record - Phone: +1-858-278-0799 - Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/balboasalonsd.com/book, https://directindex.org/go/balboasalonsd.com/menu ## Can an agent transact? Measured, not scored (the score stays at spec v1.0). - UCP profile (/.well-known/ucp, Google and Shopify's Universal Commerce Protocol): no - ACP discovery document (/.well-known/acp.json, OpenAI and Stripe's Agentic Commerce Protocol): no - MCP server card (/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json): no - Ordering vendor that takes agent orders (Square, Toast, or a vendor whose terms allow agents): no ## Score breakdown | Component | Points | Available | |---|---|---| | Reachable | 25 | 25 | | Readable | 7 | 25 | | Actionable | 22 | 30 | | Cited | 0 | 0 (the assistant citation check: pending) | ## Agent readiness (Cloudflare) Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence. Cloudflare's report: https://isitagentready.com/balboasalonsd.com - Link headers on the homepage: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/link-headers/SKILL.md) - sitemap.xml: yes - AI bot rules in robots.txt: yes - Content Signals in robots.txt: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/content-signals/SKILL.md) - Markdown on Accept: text/markdown: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/markdown-negotiation/SKILL.md) - llms.txt: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/llms-txt/SKILL.md) - API catalog (RFC 9727): no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/api-catalog/SKILL.md) - MCP server card: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/mcp-server-card/SKILL.md) - A2A agent card: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/a2a-agent-card/SKILL.md) - Agent Skills index: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/agent-skills/SKILL.md) - OAuth or OIDC discovery: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/oauth-discovery/SKILL.md) - OAuth protected resource metadata: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/oauth-protected-resource/SKILL.md) - auth.md: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/auth-md/SKILL.md) - Web Bot Auth key directory: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/web-bot-auth/SKILL.md) - ARD capability manifest: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/ard/SKILL.md) - DNS-AID records: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/dns-aid/SKILL.md) - WebMCP tools on the page: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/webmcp/SKILL.md) - JSON-LD for the business: no Keep watching this business (https://directindex.org/r/balboasalonsd.com/plan): the assistants are asked again every month, and you see what changed. 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year. Deep report: https://directindex.org/r/balboasalonsd.com/deep. Ten questions phrased the way people ask them, each assistant's full answer, the eight nearest similar places, the fix plan and a PDF. 5 EUR, paid once. Reading and scanning stay free. These few euros pay for the questions sent to the assistants and for the servers. Methodology: https://directindex.org/methodology · Rescan now: https://directindex.org/scan?url=balboasalonsd.com&force=1